Hi Victor, On Sat, 10 Jun 2023 12:33:21 +0100 Victor Ivanov <vic.m.iva...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello fellow penguins, > > I have to admit I'm at my wits' end with KWallet. This thing has been > driving me insane for the last couple of weeks, roughly since the > upgrade to Plasma 5.27 or shortly after. > > Every time I log in, it refuses to automatically open and prompts for > a password whenever an application wants to read secrets. Admittedly, > this is under Wayland which, following from recent news re this being > the Gentoo preference, I decided to give a try. But this also happens > under X11, so I doubt it's got anything to do with Wayland. > > I've tried everything I can think of: > - I've double checked the auto unlock guide in the Gentoo Wiki, made > sure PAM rules are in place and kwallet-pam is installed. Which should > be all good regardless, as it used to work just fine; > - I've also oneshot all of: kde-plasma/ , kde-frameworks/ , kde-apps/ > , and anything returned by "eix -I# pam", "eix -I# xdg", and "eix -I# > dbus" > - when the above failed to yield any meaningful resolution, I repeated > the one-shot step this time with "--noconfmem" and re-reviewed any > changes from the default configs; > - finally, I nuked all of my $HOME settings under ~/.config, ~/.cache, > and ~/.local and started from scratch; > - and yes, the KWallet was set up and re-setup (plenty of times) with > Blowfish with the same password as my login; > > The irony is, I have an equivalent Gentoo setup on a separate machine, > also moved to Wayland at the same time as I keep them both up to date > at the same intervals, and it works flawlessly. I've recursively > diff'd all config files under /etc between the two hosts and, other > than some minor, unrelated host-specific differences, everything is > identical, including configs under /etc/pam.d. > > I can get it to kind of work with a blank password, but that's not the > point and is not a viable "solution". Even then, it still doesn't auto > open, but at least it doesn't produce annoying prompts to open. > > I've always despised KWallet for its flaky behaviour but for the last > few years it hadn't given me any issues up until now. > > I'm truly bewildered. Is there anything I am missing? Are you testing with LightDM and SDDM logins where you type your password manually, rather than relying on autologin, or fingerprint readers, etc.? If memory serves me, something needs to pass down the password to kwallet, so with autologin, it can't unlock the wallet. (At least, not without extra help, I see the Arch wiki mentions pam_autologin for this but I haven't used it: [1]) Hope this helps, but it's been a while since I've used the wallet. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KDE_Wallet#Unlock_KDE_Wallet_automatically_on_login - Bryan
